The Introduction of the Special Issue The Environment represents for humans that water is for fish. No life is possible in a degraded Environment. Unfortunately, the latter is facing nowadays several aggressions resulting on various malfunctions. These are deforestation, climate change, poor waste management, over-extraction of mineral resources, excessive capitalism accompanied by economic greed, etc. These major problems are not only dependent and interconnected, that is to say, the appearance of one may cause others, but also capital (that is to say, can generate dozens of other secondary problems). For example, deforestation may cause extinction of some essential plant and animal species, increasing the air pollution processes and generate or aggravate the phenomenon of climate change. Excessive capitalism drives man to overexploitation of natural resources for consumption demands increasingly growing. This leads among others to high levels of chemical use and waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions. There are hundreds of other examples with Environmental impacts as serious as each other. Today, all these threats and impacts have become everyday and global realities. Soils are degraded locally, due to erosion or salinization losing their quality or chemical properties. Water is involved at three levels: declining water (drought) caused by the depletion of the resource due to irrigation or hydropower production, quality alteration (pollution) caused among others by use of chemicals in agriculture, nuclear accidents, industrial waste, etc. and overabundance of surface water (floods) caused, anthropogenically, by drainage, irrigation, dams building and climate change associated with greenhouse gases emission. Atmosphere is polluted, leading to the destruction of ozone, due to the emission of greenhouse gases. Deforestation seriously threatens biodiversity with the risk of extinction of several animal and plant species. These ecological disasters have actual and potential impacts on the human health and survival. It is imperative to act accordingly. We are the first generation to be so highly exposed, but also the last to be able to reverse the tendency. We believe that Geosciences can provide a set of scientific tools to address properly and mitigate each of these threats. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing associated with Cartography, Geographic Visualization, quantitative methods like Geostatistics and qualitative methods like Ethnography can contribute to predict, reduce or wipe out various Environmental hazards mentioned above. With its objective focused on publishing the most exciting researches with respect to the subject of Geography, natural disasters, Environmental concerns and related topics, Advances in Geoscience is an ideal platform to disseminate and popularize the results of such investigations. And this is especially true that the Open Access policy of Advances in Geoscience gives a large worldwide audience and increases the visibility and impacts of published papers.
The Research Scope of the Special Issue ·Geophysics ·Hydrology ·Geology ·Water resources ·Geography ·Climate change
Submission guidelines All papers should be submitted via the Modern Management Forum submission system: http://ojs.usp-pl.com/index.php/MODERN-MANAGEMENT-FORUM Submitted articles should not be published or under review elsewhere. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s standard peer review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, scientific merit and relevance to the field of interest of the Special Issue.
Important Dates Paper Submission Due: August , 2019
The Lead Guest Editor Zakari Arétouyap |
